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New comment by brikil in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

brikil — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:30:55 +0000

It should not be overlooked that a lot of this fervor is from investors/board members putting pressure on these companies.

New comment by brikil in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

brikil — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:39:37 +0000

Inflation is more likely when the net number of dollars increases without a corresponding increase to production. Taxing earners at a higher rate doesn’t do this. Printing money at the central bank does.

New comment by brikil in "Cree releases LEDs designed for horticulture"

brikil — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:28:21 +0000

I recently became enamored with begonias. The four I’ve collected so far spent the summer outside under my patio and look gorgeous!

One plant was purchased online and arrived with pukey, neutral foliage. After a few months outside, it’s this beautiful, deep, iridescent red on a black border. My wife thinks I’m crazy for how much I fawn over them.

New comment by brikil in "Designing the Characters of 'Cowboy Bebop'"

brikil — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 01:22:02 +0000

> When its live-action reboot failed last year

Did it fail? I enjoyed it! I don’t stay up to date with the critics though. Hope this doesn't mean the second season won’t get made.

New comment by brikil in "Microsoft researched what made employees happy"

brikil — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 22:42:06 +0000

That reminds me of the cell biology diagrams from grade school.

New comment by brikil in "Amplify UI – Don't just prototype. Connect your UI to the cloud"

brikil — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:15:17 +0000

Has it been updated? Last time I gave this a spin (within the past year), the UI was buggy as hell. I was really excited to use it for a personal project but it did not quite deliver on what it promised.

New comment by brikil in "Generating Children’s Stories Using GPT-3 and DALL·E"

brikil — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:41:06 +0000

Did yours have jaunty hand claps too?

New comment by brikil in "Accel Leads $50M Funding of Cybersecurity Startup Veza at $500M Valuation"

brikil — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:31:23 +0000

It's remarkable that cloud providers don't offer a simple authorization-centric view of data access today. It reminds me of AWS's hands-off approach to locking down S3 buckets for so long. They are happy to sell you the gun and ammo and it's not their fault when you shoot yourself in the foot.

A Captain’s Journey to the Antarctic

brikil — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 01:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://ocean.si.edu/human-connections/careers/captains-journey-antarctic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748935

Points: 1

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New comment by brikil in "Facebook loses users for the first time"

brikil — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:00:12 +0000

That’s where all the insights are…

New comment by brikil in "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019)"

brikil — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 01:13:07 +0000

If I find myself googling the same thing over and over, it goes into notes.

New comment by brikil in "Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”"

brikil — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 03:34:04 +0000

So the rich are getting robots now…

New comment by brikil in "The Document Culture of Amazon"

brikil — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:35:40 +0000

In my org at least, most of the time the doc is distributed ahead of time. It gives people a chance to spend more time on it or start adding inline comments. But we still start meetings with reading for those that don’t read ahead of time.

New comment by brikil in "Safari tries to fill username"

brikil — Fri, 28 May 2021 20:19:47 +0000

The clipboard is accessible from the javascript runtime from any page in any tab. Maybe disabling paste is intended to discourage the behavior?

I think this is also why lastpass clears your clipboard a few moments after you click the “copy to clipboard” button.